Faculty-Discipline
Yasmin ChoAndrew Plaks
Andrew Plaks
Associate Adjunct Professor
Email: ap3606@columbia.edu
Educational Background
AB: Princeton University (’67)
PhD: Princeton University (’73)
Research Interests
Chinese and Japanese Classical Literature
Selected Publications
Pu Andi Zixuanji (Collected Works of Andrew Plaks). Beijing: Sanlian shuju (2011)
“Zheng Xuan’s Commentary on the Zhouli,” in Statecraft and Classical Learning: the Rituals of Zhou in East Asian History, ed. Benjamin A. Elman and Martin Kern (Leiden: Brill, 2010).
“Why the Chinese Gods Don’t Suffer?,” in Studies in Chinese Language and Culture: Festschrift in Honor of Christoph Harbsmeier (2006).
“Xin as the Seat of the Emotions in Confucian Self-cultivation,” in Love, Hatred, and Other Passions, ed. Paolo Santangelo and Donatella Guida (Leiden: Brill, 2006), pp.113-25.
“Completeness and Partiality in Traditional Commentaries on Honglou meng,” Tamkang Review (XXXVI:1-2), Fall-Winter 2005. pp. 117-35
“Xin as the Seat of the Emotions in Confucian Self-cultivation,” in Love, Hatred, and Other Passions, ed. Paolo Santangelo and Donatella Guida (Leiden: Brill, 2006), pp.113-25.
The Highest Order of Cultivation and On the Practice of the Mean. London: Penguin Classics (2003)
Yicheng Zhang
Yicheng Zhang
LECTURER IN CHINESE
Office: 510 Kent Hall
Office Hours: MWF 11:30-12:30
Teaching Hours: MWF 10:10-11:25, MTWR 6:10-7:15
Phone: (212)854-3604
Email: yz3132@columbia.edu
Educational Background
MA: Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages, Beijing Language & Culture University (2013)
BA: Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, Beijing Language & Culture University (2010)
Classes Taught
CHNS UN1101 First Year Chinese I
CHNS UN1102 First Year Chinese II
CHNS UN2221 Second Year Chinese W I
CHNS UN2222 Second Year Chinese W II
Research Interests
Linguistics
Pedagogy of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language
Task-based Language Teaching
Yicheng Zhang had taught Chinese in all levels at Lycée Jean Bart (Dunkerque, France) and Shanghai International Studies University (Shanghai,China). She joined Columbia in 2016 and has been teaching first and second year Chinese.
